Uncannily similar to the 1st set in the sense of Hev breaking in game 4 then getting broken back in game 7. Still, they can continue in that vein if they want to ...

7-5 5-4*

Bencic serving to stay in the match ... 30-30, challenge by Bencic - incorrect, so it's match point
MP saved ... ad-in ... deuce .. Bencic ace, ad-in ... deuce ... ad-out, match point no. 2 ... also saved ...
2nd serve ... Hev wins the point, match point no. 3 ... yes!


L96: (Q) Heather Watson WR 134 beat (WC) Belinda Bencic (SUI) WR 146 (world junior no. 1) by 5 & 4

L64: (Q) Heather Watson WR 134 v (2) Agnieszka Radwanska (POL) WR 3 (CH 2 in 2012)

H2H 0-2 - Aga won 0 & 2 in R3 at Wimbledon in 2012 and 3 & 1 in R3 at the Aus Open last year

Quite a 'ding dong' that last game. Shame we couldn't have seen it. It will be interesting to see if there are any twitter comments from anyone court side.

Can I breathe now?

Wonderful, always a nose ahead, and when Bencic threatened to build momentum on several occasions, Heather always had the solution to stop her in her tracks and re-establish her lead.
Impressed, yet again.

Yes, like Ali, I'm also hoping Aga's cachet will mean the next match is streamed.

Edit: I discover now that I've been spelling cachet incorrectly my whole life as caché! Corrected.

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Classy stuff, but I was very confident.

Agadoo next, will be fascinating to see whether Hev can claim a few more games than in their previous meetings, or maybe even a set, we shall see.

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Very good !

Hurricane Hev doesn't do 3 sets these days. How boring :)

Ignoring her Acapulco illness retiral anomaly ( because I can :) ) that's 12 successive wins and 22 successive sets won.

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LOL great minds and all that (or is that fevered minds? ) ... you had me worried there when I saw "22 successive sets" because I had tweeted her last 10 excluding Acapulco were in straights (after double-checking the order of the ties in Fed Cup), but of course she came from a set down to beat Cirstea, so we match after all

She's now 19-4 this year (this time including the Acapulco loss)

I'd like to bask in Tom's 'oracle' comment but that would have required another 7-5 and Hev couldn't be bothered to wait around for the 12th game before breaking again in the 2nd set - not that I'm complaining!